Date added: November 26, 2012; Modified: December 8, 2018
The Poughkeepsie post office has five large murals on the walls depicting local scenes from the 17th to 20th centuries. Two horizontal murals at either end of the lower lobby are views of Poughkeepsie from across the Hudson in 1839… read more
Date added: November 26, 2012; Modified: December 2, 2018
The magnificent Poughkeepsie post office was built by the Treasury Department as part of the New Deal in 1937-39. The architecture is a kind of colonial revival done in the rough stone style of the Dutch settlers of the Hudson… read more
Date added: May 6, 2014; Modified: December 2, 2018
The Public Works Administration (PWA) gave grants to the Hyde Park Central School District to build three school buildings: Hyde Park Elementary School, Haviland Middle School (originally dedicated as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School but later renamed when a… read more
Date added: January 22, 2017; Modified: April 11, 2017
Lincoln Community Center was established as a community center by Vassar College in 1916. The former Lincoln Community Center Gymnasium was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) in 1937. Arson destroyed the primary center in 1979, and Living New… read more
Date added: January 26, 2015
The federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) constructed a half-mile storm sewer along Grand Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York, from north of Fulton Ave. to a creek south of College Ave.